Officers fatally shoot man in Marinette County

TOWN OF PESHTIGO, Wis. (AP) — Authorities say officers have fatally shot a man during a confrontation along a road in northeastern Wisconsin.

Marinette County sheriff's officials say there was some type of incident involving a male suspect and a handgun at a motel in Marinette shortly after midnight Thursday.

Officers determined the man was possibly at a residence in the Town of Peshtigo. That's where they found the man getting into a vehicle and driving away on Highway 64.

Sheriff Jerry Sauve says the officers tried to stop the suspect who drove partially into a ditch, got out of the vehicle armed with a handgun and "placed the officers in danger." Sauve says the suspect was shot and killed by the officers.